I was ready for a rocking time. Even though I was tired, I was still amped. I ended up with front row tickets (again, thanks to Rich Wilson). I guess it was
worth the wait all day in the cold. The weather was horrid. Good thing I packed my winter coat this past weekend, cause I certainly used it the day of the Buffalo
show. I even grabbed my blanket and had to fist fight Bowman for it (what a bum).

We didn't get to the venue in a super-timely manner because we all went back to Amy's hotel room and napped/watched tv. We weren't in a super rush to get to the venue.
When we got there, though, I had to get posters. As did others. The stand on the first floor was sold out so off some of us went to get posters on the 2nd floor. I found
Dolin and we combined our posters and began to roll them when we heard that age old line, "Good evening." Aw, fuck. Ed pre-set before Sparta. We ran to the first section we
could find and we were greeted by a grumpy son of a bitch (which surprised me since all the other venue employees we met in the fan club line were supurb---they got us port-o-johns
and coffee...for real!). He would not let Dolin and I down to the floor or stand anywhere because we had not gotten "floor wristbands" yet. Would have been nice if the people
who took our tickets told us we had to enter on the first floor to get wristbands. Getto later made me feel bad because it had slipped my mind that he was waiting for us to
bring posters back to him so he could go put them in the car. After the posters sold out on the first floor, I just sorta assumed Bob was going to relay the info to him and he
would just run Bob's poster back to the car. So because we didn't bring the posters back, he missed the pre-set. I think he was just busting my balls-that-I-don't-have...but I still
felt bad. I told him he could have my next front row ticket...LOL...but it turns out he didn't need my ticket the next night to be in the front row...

Hung around the concourse while Sparta was on. Wishing I could eat some ice cream (I knew if I had ice cream right before the show I would end up with a tummy ache). Then I saw
I had a nice text message from Kirk wishing us all a good show and then a voicemail from SarahCanada saying she was at the show. Haha. Rad.

We all went down to the floor and got into position. Show opened with Love Boat Captain...which is probably going to become this tour's Of The Girl or something. Not
that I am complaining. It's a decent opener. Second song surprised us all...freaking Brain Of J!!! Yes! And someone had even mentioned earlier in the day about how
nice it would be to hear Brain of J. Hail, Hail, Save You, and Corduroy came next, nice huh?

And then...eventually...I Got Shit!!! Fuck yeah! Into Even Flow and then Faithfull. Deep?!? This was about when I started thinking, "Man, this
band rules."

I also got Green Disease which is one of my fav's off of Riot Act so that put a smile on my face...

Haha, band played "Free Jazz" again. Too funny. Crazy Mary featured some great jamming between Mike and Boom. Very very nice.
Second encore began with Soon Forget...which was sung to a Bill Gates mask.

Smile came next. Got to check the whole bass/guitar switch-a-roo up close:-)

Next three songs were covers...and I do not have any complaints about that AT ALL. I love PJ covers. People Have the Power was awesome...and a girl was pulled from
like 4th row to hold the lyric sheet. Very cool.

And I couldn't believe it...a third encore! Shit like that doesn't happen EVERYDAY you know! Baba O'Riley...and THEN Yellow Ledbetter!!!

Man o man!

At some point during the set, Ed had mentioned the place had a curfew and said McCready was going to pay the fees/fine. Haha priceless.

Show was awesome...and while we expected State College might be something special...I don't know...after this show, I had no idea how great the show the following night was going to be...